Brown Station, MD
Brown Station wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Brown Station at the 34th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,311 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brown Station's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Brown Station: 69.7% of its 1,311 buildings, versus 30.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Brown Station compares
Compare Brown Station's two percentiles: 52nd within Maryland, only 34th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brown Station ranks 20,922 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,017 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maryland alone, it ranks 256 of 527 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maryland on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Brown Station's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Brown Station
With 69.7% of Brown Station in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,311 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brown Station. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brown Station, see the exposure-zones guide.